Toponymy
The county of Yorkshire was so named as it is the Shire (administrative area or county) of the City of York ( i/ˈjɔːk/) or York's Shire. "York" comes from the Viking name for the city, Jórvík. "Shire" is from Old English, scir, and appears to be allied to shear as it is a division of the land. The "shire" suffix is locally pronounced /-ʃə/ "shuh", or occasionally /-ʃiə/, a homophone of "sheer".
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